158 Quotes About Chronic-illness

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.

So often we think that the truth is a static entity that exists only in a singular place--a place that we have to find. But I have come to realize that the answers I have been looking for, the truth of my own body, was ever-changing.

I want you to love me for me, for now, for as much time as we have. I swear I'll do all I can to take care of myself. I already do. But that's it. If that's enough, I'm yours. If you can only love me if you have a guarantee that I'll be around forever, then find someone else to be terrified of losing and let me go.

I am disabled but I'm not my disability. Disability is just a little piece of me but it is not my whole personality

That is what chronic illness is . . . a disconnect between what our souls can do and what our bodies can do.

I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.

Power is tricky to navigate; to understand it you have to lay the groundwork for what makes you powerful in the first place.

The secret of making lasting change is to acknowledge and accept that real change takes time and patience. We didn't get chronically ill overnight. We didn't gain weight in one week or even one month. Good chance, it may take us longer than twenty-one days to overcome whatever we're facing. Whether it's something physical, emotional, spiritual, or a combination, we may need to be realistic in our goals for meaningful change to happen. The first step is getting started!

Our circumstances might be abject, we might not think we can survive for one more day enslaved to illness, but God says, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.